Author: Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595220347
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Tom Fool & Three More
Author: Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595220347
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Tom Fool's History, Or, Modern Taste Displayed
Author: George Alexander StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Thoroughbred Champions
Author: Blood-Horse, IncPublisher: Eclipse Press
ISBN: 9781581500240
Category : Horse racing
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Follows The Blood-Horse's Top 100 list, beginning with Man o' War in the No. 1 spot and ending with Blue Larkspur at No. 100.
The Girl and the Snake and Other Short Plays
Author: Renata AllenPublisher: Heinemann
ISBN: 9780435233211
Category : Children's plays, English
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This series of plays offers contemporary drama and new editions of classic plays. The series has been developed to support classroom teaching and to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum Key Stages 3 and 4.
Belmont Park
Author: Richard StonePublisher: Eclipse Press
ISBN: 1581501226
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
World-renowned equine artist Richard Stone Reeves celebrates the 100th anniversary of Belmont Park iwth portraits and essays of seventy champion racehorses.
Topologies of the Classical World in Children's Fiction
Author: Claudia NelsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192584901
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Beginning with Rudyard Kipling and Edith Nesbit and concluding with best-selling series still ongoing at the time of writing, this volume examines works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century children's literature that incorporate character types, settings, and narratives derived from the Greco-Roman past. Drawing on a cognitive poetics approach to reception studies, it argues that authors typically employ a limited and powerful set of spatial metaphors - palimpsest, map, and fractal - to organize the classical past for preteen and adolescent readers. Palimpsest texts see the past as a collection of strata in which each new era forms a layer superimposed upon a foundation laid earlier; map texts use the metaphor of the mappable journey to represent a protagonist's process of maturing while gaining knowledge of the self and/or the world; fractal texts, in which small parts of the narrative are thematically identical to the whole, present the past in a way that implies that history is infinitely repeatable. While a given text may embrace multiple metaphors in presenting the past, associations between dominant metaphors, genre, and outlook emerge from the case studies examined in each chapter, revealing remarkable thematic continuities in how the past is represented and how agency is attributed to protagonists: each model, it is suggested, uses the classical past to urge and thus perhaps to develop a particular approach to life.
The Bookman
Author: A Century of Horse Racing Memories
Author: Drew SlaterPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532068832
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This book profiles the two hundred most famous racehorses of the twentieth century and gives ratings for six hundred others. What juvenile star beat older horses twice? What was the final score between Affirmed and Alydar? What was Man o’ War’s greatest victory margin? How many starts did indestructible mare Imp make? What male champion did the great filly Twilight Tear whip? Who beat both Exceller and John Henry on grass? Who defeated Forego, Secretariat, and Riva Ridge? How much weight did Discovery carry when he was only four? Learn the answers and many more in this landmark book!
They're Off!
Author: Ed HotalingPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815603504
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
As much social history as sports history, this is an account of how America's first national resort, Saratoga Springs, gave birth to and nurtured its first national sport and in the process had significant impact on American cultural life. Fine bandw photographs, etchings, and drawings illustrate the text. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Lives of the Great Romantics, Part II, Volume 3
Author: Fiona RobertsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000748278
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this second collection of biographical accounts of Romantic writers, the characters of Keats, Coleridge and Scott are recalled by their contemporaries, offering insights into their lives and writings, as well as into the art of 19th-century biography.